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blackhole

Post Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:05 am

The only reason windows has all these security holes and other products "don't", is the simple fact that all the other products have security holes as well. Its just that those products don't have, literally, millions of hackers pounding away at them. If you have a million hackers all trying to find the smallest typo in over 50 megs of code, your gonna find mistakes. Take firefox, why is it more secure than I.E.? Because it isn't mainstream yet. The instant it gets really, REALLY widespread it will be the target of hackers and people will suddenly discover an unpleasent fact: Firefox is full of security holes too. Security holes are everywhere , in every single program you own. Microsoft has done a very good job and keeping an operating system under attack by a million hackers relatively secure.

Granted, MS has made some pretty stupid moves, but come on guys, you have you realise that MS is doing what no other company is doing. Giving an operating system that is used in what.. 90% of the worlds computers? That means they have to deal with tens of thousands of hardware types, and provide functionality for 5 BILLION people.

Don't like MS? Try doing their job for one day and tell me how you liked it.

J Dawg

Post Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:01 pm

ditto to most of the above two posts

Indy11

Post Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:42 am

Per Fd

I belive it was Xerox that had them, and for crazy reasons, had invited Steve Jobs and company to see it all. They in turn used it in the new Mac they made afterwards, then MS got it from them.


Xerox PARC = Palo Alto Research Center. It is /was the mother of all PC inventions we take for granted today, GUI, WYSIWYG, mouse, object oriented programming, etc. all in the 1970s (see Wiki linky).

Jobs wasn't invited so much as he got himself a visit at the Center and was given permission to basically take their ideas and try to make them commercially viable. While Jobs was doing that, sort of along parallel time lines, Gates persuaded IBM to make its PC an open architechture for anyone to manufacture.

The tragedy in this tale is Xerox. The upper management at Xerox were massively underwhelmed by the miracle gizmos that were developed at Xerox PARC and decided that its primary area of focus was and would remain image and text printing on paper. Xerox held patents to some of the most lucrative PC hardware concepts ever invented and they basically just let them go for free.

Gates got going with Windows after MS had been contracted with Apple for close to four years as the work force to build enhancements to the original Apple and Apple Mac OSes.

Jobs sued Gates when Gates launched Windows claiming that he used Apple's ideas for a GUI to develop Windows and, at one point Gates did have some of the same key talent that were working on Apple's OS also working on Windows.



Edited by - Indy11 on 2/22/2006 6:45:19 AM

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